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Interesting article, but I wish they supported comments on it.

It also misses the issue of the social status of software developers, and how it's a major cause of the "software crisis." If software developers had a professional status like doctors, lawyers, or accountants, we'd be in a much better position to keep this kind of tragedy from recurring.

Disappointing. The project that the author sites as their main example had issues that were more logistical than based on the idea of "programmers as cogs". Put the original 8 people in cubes and a decent part of the inefficiencies mentioned go away. I'm not arguing for cubicles but I don't feel that this article supported it's argument. He mentions H1-B visas in the article yet I read nothing to support that they are negative to the process. On the contrary, I believe that they are vital to the advancement of the IT industry in it's current state (see my blog post on the subject at http://www.michaelminella.com/blog/12.html ).